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Here at For Bloggers, By Bloggers, we have talked a lot about Livefyre, our preferred commenting system. And we proudly use it here on this blog. If you compare Livefyre to the WordPress vanilla commenting system, social sharing and realtime conversations are only two of the reasons to use Livefyre to turn your readers and [...]
Much of the learning on your blog happens with the rich interactions in the comments section. And the more comments, the more readers and subscribers you get. When it comes to blog comments—and user participation online in general— researcher Jakob Nielsen found something called the 90-9-1 rule. On average, 90 percent of your blog’s readers [...]
Kids come to school with ideas already formed. About winning and losing. About being the best at something. About being stronger. Smarter. More cool. As a first grade teacher, I liked to shake things up a bit with my students. Challenge their little worlds. Get them to think differently.
Kids come to school with ideas already formed. About winning and losing. About being the best at something. About being stronger. Smarter. More cool. As a first grade teacher, I liked to shake things up a bit with my students. Challenge their little worlds. Get them to think differently.
Getting more comments on your blog has many benefits to you and your readership. Before we take a look at ways to attract more comments, let’s take a look at those benefits.
I haven’t met a blogger yet who wasn’t interested in building a community around his or her blog. It’s the nature of the game. Better yet, and I’m not trying to get all psycho babble on you here, community is in our very nature as human beings. We like to be liked. We love to have [...]
Whenever I coach a client or teach a workshop, I am amazed at how many people either ignore their WordPress settings or just leave them all as default. I’m talking about: General Writing Reading Discussion Media Privacy and Permalinks (for those of you self-hosted) Most bloggers set up their general settings, or at least check [...]
In my younger days of entrepreneurship, after I left teaching but before I found my true life’s passion, I tried on a few different business ideas. My first rule for launching a business was that I would need to have fun. There were other requirements, of course, but if it wasn’t something I absolutely loved [...]
Nice Is Not a Word: What I Learned about Blog Commenting at Recess
If you have ever been on a school playground with a bunch of first graders, you noticed something right away. 6-year-olds are social creatures—highly verbal—but they have not yet learned to settle their differences without adult intervention. When I was a first grade teacher, in one of my many former lives, I saw a certain [...]